“I believe in them and the music that they will make. I love Girls and I always will. That faith overshadows the pain of saying goodbye with the eagerness to say hello, to whatever future is to come.” Saying goodbye to Girls. [via True Panther]

The upcoming Flying Lotus LP, Until the Quiet Comes, features Thom Yorke on a track. [via Consequence of Sound] I remember reading that Jonny Greenwood would feature on another track as well, but I’ve lost the link.

The appearance of these four novels gives the American reader an opportunity to discover the substance behind the legend of Clarice Lispector; but it also helps to explain why that legend could thrive. If Lispector’s Brazilian readers were driven to mythologize and idolize her—Moser tells the story of one reader who, on meeting the writer, threw herself at Lispector’s feet and cried, “My goddess!”—they were only responding to an invitation that Lispector issues in her writing. These strange, paradoxical novels—which are not really novels at all, but hybrids of dramatic monologue and religious treatise—are all about the exceptionalness of their author, whose mind and character form their primary subject. Few books work so hard to give the illusion of intimate contact with their creator, and few are as unapologetically self-dramatizing. Indeed, the emotional melodrama and self-obsession of these difficult books frequently makes them sound adolescent—until their rigorous philosophical curiosity and mystical insight make them sound suddenly like the work of a Spinoza or a saint.

Arriving this past week were Enrique Vila-Matas’s Dublinesque and a new anthology of relatively recent Latin American fiction translated into English. The Vila-Matas turned up quite dirty and old-looking, for some reason. Hopefully I’ll be able to get it replaced!

Back from a long weekend away from any serious typing. Hope you’re doing well. First order of business this week is to let you know that Flea has his Helen Burns EP up on a more or less pay-what-you-want scheme over in the link. [via The Silverlake Conservatory of Music] This will last till 9 August. All proceeds will go to the Conservatory. You might also get one of the vinyl sets with one of his bass strings, if they’re still available.

One of the tracks features Patti Smith, whose recently put out Banga. I had a listen to the whole thing on Saturday and I quite like it. Will definitely be listening to it some more.